Data Quotes - Page 39

• Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

  Roy Sekoff

  Ears, Narrative, Coming Out

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• Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

  Marcus Sakey

  Baseball, Moving, Mean

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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Divorce

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• The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we need to worry about earnings. What gave us a really strong move in stock prices from late May until about two weeks ago was this heightened optimism that maybe interest rates are at that high. That gave you a relief rally. Now reality is setting in - if we've seen the worst on interest rates then we've seen the best on earnings.

  Douglas Cliggott

  Strong, Moving, Reality

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• We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

  Orlando Rodriguez

  Reality, People, Want

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• I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  Catherine D. DeAngelis

  Writing, Reality, Issues

  "Medical journals act to limit drug firms' influence", www.cnn.com. September 9, 2001.

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• Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

  Brian Wesbury

  Strong, Past, Reality

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  Will Burtin

  Communication, Ideas, Design

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• Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, People, Trying

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• I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

  Douglas Bader

  Historical, Odd, Keywords

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• TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

  John Poindexter

  Real, Issues, Tias

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

  George Saunders

  Troops, Doe, Broads

  "Just who is this Magna Carta fellow?" by George Saunders, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

  Roger Kimball

  Age, Information, Welcome

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• Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.

  Mike Michaud

  Order, Want, Littles

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• Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Media, Missing

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• As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

  Steve Buyer

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

  Michael Faraday

  Principles, Facts, Chemistry

  Michael Faraday (1842). “Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration Or Research, with Accuracy and Success”, p.1

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• Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

  Francis Crick

  Views, Order, Mutation

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• While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn. With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.

  Carolyn Porco

  Team, Hands, Saturn

  "Carolyn Porco: Keeping an Eye in Saturn". Interview with Bjorn Carey, www.space.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.

  David Brooks

  Moving, Thinking, Hands

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• The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

  Gabriel Marcel

  Heart, Principles, Inventory

  Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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